History of Mata Lakshmi Birth
Lakshmiji is the Goddess of wealth, prosperity, luck, light, beauty and fertility. Her persona implicates all positiveness. The four arms of Goddess indicates that her bliss can shower in all directions possible. And the lotus on which she is sitting elegantly, signifies that we should never be too much attached with the materialistic world.
There is an amazing story behind the origin of Goddess Lakshmi. This legendary story associated with the festival of Diwali is also called as the story of 'Samudra Manthan'(Churning of Sea). The story weaved with various elements of fantasy goes like this.
Once, Rishi Durvasa cursed God Indra for not paying proper respect to him. It was actually the pride of wealth that Indra didn't pay attention to Sage Durvasa. As a result of his curse, Goddess Lakshmi, who was the reason for Indra's prosperity left him. Indra pleaded him to nullify the curse. Durvasa pitied him and said that only Lord Vishnu would be able to help him.
Being at loss of everything gave a nice opportunity to Demons to attack Indra. His teacher and mentor, Brihaspati helped Indra to approach Lord Vishnu for help. Lord Vishnu advised him to reconcile with the Demons and perform the process of churning the sea in order to extract milk from it. Using Mandara (a mountain) as the churning rod and Vasuki ( name of the king of serpents)as the rope, Demons and Gods, with combined efforts, carried out the process. This enabled Goddess Lakshmi to emerge from the sea in a dramatic manner amidst the wild tides of sea water. The milk produced as the effect of churning was the nectar and all Gods had it so as to immortalize their being.
This was the story of Lakshmi- Indra reunion. But many other significant instances are attached it. At the same time, the King of Sea appeared and declared Lakshmi to be his daughter. He blessed the divine couple with good fortune and happiness. Moreover, this incident marks the return of Lord Indra to power and glory, which earlier was snatched away due to the effect of Durvasa curse.
Just as Indra reassembled his broken empire and was rather well of after Lakshmiji bestowed her blessings over him, people pray to her to shower on them the same grace. It is believed that on the auspicious day of Diwali, Goddess Lakshmi visits every house and graces it with her generosity. This is the reason why we see every house beautifully decorated with lights and Rangolis so that they can welcome Goddess Lakshmi to their house.
Lakshmiji is the Goddess of wealth, prosperity, luck, light, beauty and fertility. Her persona implicates all positiveness. The four arms of Goddess indicates that her bliss can shower in all directions possible. And the lotus on which she is sitting elegantly, signifies that we should never be too much attached with the materialistic world.
There is an amazing story behind the origin of Goddess Lakshmi. This legendary story associated with the festival of Diwali is also called as the story of 'Samudra Manthan'(Churning of Sea). The story weaved with various elements of fantasy goes like this.
Once, Rishi Durvasa cursed God Indra for not paying proper respect to him. It was actually the pride of wealth that Indra didn't pay attention to Sage Durvasa. As a result of his curse, Goddess Lakshmi, who was the reason for Indra's prosperity left him. Indra pleaded him to nullify the curse. Durvasa pitied him and said that only Lord Vishnu would be able to help him.
Being at loss of everything gave a nice opportunity to Demons to attack Indra. His teacher and mentor, Brihaspati helped Indra to approach Lord Vishnu for help. Lord Vishnu advised him to reconcile with the Demons and perform the process of churning the sea in order to extract milk from it. Using Mandara (a mountain) as the churning rod and Vasuki ( name of the king of serpents)as the rope, Demons and Gods, with combined efforts, carried out the process. This enabled Goddess Lakshmi to emerge from the sea in a dramatic manner amidst the wild tides of sea water. The milk produced as the effect of churning was the nectar and all Gods had it so as to immortalize their being.
This was the story of Lakshmi- Indra reunion. But many other significant instances are attached it. At the same time, the King of Sea appeared and declared Lakshmi to be his daughter. He blessed the divine couple with good fortune and happiness. Moreover, this incident marks the return of Lord Indra to power and glory, which earlier was snatched away due to the effect of Durvasa curse.
Just as Indra reassembled his broken empire and was rather well of after Lakshmiji bestowed her blessings over him, people pray to her to shower on them the same grace. It is believed that on the auspicious day of Diwali, Goddess Lakshmi visits every house and graces it with her generosity. This is the reason why we see every house beautifully decorated with lights and Rangolis so that they can welcome Goddess Lakshmi to their house.
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